“Get Learned About Socialism” Crash Course
Lenin, The State and Revolution
Socialism Simplified, “Understanding State and Revolution”
Marx, Wage-Labour and Capital (text)
Wage-Labour and Capital (audiobook)
Marx, Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production (text)
Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey
Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution
Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
Sylvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch
Leslie Feinberg, Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left
Feinberg, Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come
Keyhole garden
Is your backyard too hot and dry to cultivate the vegetables you have only dreamed of? Keyhole gardens were developed for the sole purpose of maximum crop output in the hottest and driest of conditions. Their low cost, low maintenance, and versatility make them a desirable gardening option for your yard and for gardening across the globe.
Humanitarian foundations spearheaded the development of keyhole gardening to help improve lives around the world. Keyhole gardening is simple enough to be taught to school-age children in third-world countries where the children then use the concept in their homes and villages. A single keyhole garden affords enough abundance to provide a large family with a year round supply of vegetables.
Keyhole gardens are circular raised bed gardens. The larger outer circles are where crops are planted. The center portion of these gardens are active composting baskets. Small aisles are built to access the compost baskets. Keyhole gardens get their name from the bird’s eye view of these features.
Abu Simbel Temple
The Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, Lower Nubia, Egypt.
Photo: Robert Harding
On Saturday, the United Steelworkers union will commemorate the steelworkers who were shot, clubbed and gassed by police more than 80 years ago while picketing for decent wages on a prairie outside the long-defunct Republic Steel mill in Hegewisch.
USW District 7 Director Mike Millsap and Oscar Alzaga, a labor lawyer for Los Mineros, will give speeches at the annual Labor Fightback Festival at 2 p.m. Saturday at the USW Local 3212 hall at 11731 S. Avenue O on the far South Side of Chicago.
Those gathered will remember the 10 steelworkers who died on Memorial Day in 1937: Sam Popovich, Earl Handley, Lee Tisdale, Leo Francisco, Kenneth Reed, Otis Jones, Joseph Rothmund, Alfred Causey, Anthony Tagliori and Hilding Anderson.
The union’s annual Republic Steel Memorial Day Massacre Commemoration traditionally features a march that mirrors the march of steelworkers, including many who worked at Northwest Indiana mills, toward the Republic Steel gates.
Ten died and 90 were injured in the workers’ confrontation with police during the Little Steel Strike at the Republic Steel plant near the Grand Calumet River.
